Caltoris brunnea
Appearance
Caltoris brunnea | |
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Figure 33 is Caltoris brunnea caere from Lionel de Nicéville's 1891 "On New and Little-Known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region" | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Caltoris |
Species: | C. brunnea
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Binomial name | |
Caltoris brunnea | |
Synonyms | |
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Caltoris brunnea, the dark branded swift, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1876. It is found in the Indomalayan realm in Burma and in Java as subspecies C. b. caere (de Nicéville, 1891).[2]
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Bambusa species and Imperata cylindrica.
Subspecies
[edit]- Caltoris brunnea brunnea (Java)
- Caltoris brunnea caere (de Nicéville, 1891) (Myanmar)
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Caltoris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Data related to Caltoris brunnea at Wikispecies